Metaphysics of Time in Spacetime

Calosi, Claudio

doi:10.1002/tht3.89

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

2014

DOI: 10.1002/tht3.89

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Metaphysics of Time in Spacetime

Claudio Calosi

Abstract: I give a new and more general argument against presentism within relativistic spacetimes. This argument is untouched by different recent proposals designed to save presentism in a relativistic setting.

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“…For further criticisms of attempts to combine A‐theories with Relativity, see Gödel (), Putnam (), Sklar (), Savitt (), Sider (), Saunders (), Wuthrich (), and Calosi (). Our survey of answers to the Shape Question is not comprehensive.…”

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Relativity and Three Four‐dimensionalisms

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Relativity theory is often said to support something called 'the four-dimensional view of reality'. But there are at least three different views that sometimes go by this name. One is 'spacetime unitism' (as we call it), according to which there is a spacetime manifold, and if there are such things as points of space or instants of time, these are just spacetime regions of different sorts: thus space and time are not separate manifolds. A second is the B-theory of time, according to which the past, present, and future are all equally real and there is nothing metaphysically special about the present. A third is perdurantism, according to which persisting material objects (rocks, trees, and human beings) are made up of different temporal parts located at different times. We sketch routes from relativity to unitism and to the B-theory. We then discuss some routes to perdurantism, via the B-theory and via unitism.104 Relativity and Three Four-dimensionalisms

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Metaphysics of Time in Spacetime

Abstract: I give a new and more general argument against presentism within relativistic spacetimes. This argument is untouched by different recent proposals designed to save presentism in a relativistic setting.

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References 27 publications

Relativity and Three Four‐dimensionalisms

Relativity and Three Four‐dimensionalisms

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